Thanks!  I installed the EPEL package of numpy 1.3 and scipy 0.7.2.  Although not the latest, they are certainly good enough to get a lot done – no need to futz with compiling etc. If they keep working on updating, then that is a nice straightforward path.
Cheers,
Souheil

From: Jean-Francois Caron <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 04:51:10 -0400
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: SL6 - Numpy/SciPy/Matplotlib

I had replied privately, but I think it would be more useful to reply to the list.  I also made an error in the private reply, which is now corrected.

There is an EPEL package for scipy which has now been moved to stable https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/scipy-0.7.2-5.el6

but it does not exist in official RHEL repos:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697530
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688636

Here is me reporting being able to compile scipy 0.7.1 on my system, using the stock old version of numpy from RHEL:
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The scipy test is currently running, but it seems to work properly.  Numpy and Matplotlib are available from the official RHEL repos.

Unfortunately all of these are relatively old versions, hopefully RHEL will eventually upgrade their version of numpy so that the EPEL repos can include a newer scipy.

Jean-François

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>Date:    Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:40:58 -0400
>From:    "Inati, Souheil (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>Subject: SL6 - Numpy/SciPy/Matplotlib
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>Hi All,
>I am a new user of SL - wondering if there is an "approved" way of installi=
>ng numpy, scipy, and matplotlib under the stock python?
>Thanks,
>Souheil
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